I finally wore him out......

I consider an afternoon with Jaxon to be a challenge. Which one of us will wear out first?

Today, I am victorious. Dropped him in his tracks.  

This is how I will look after my weekend however. I have two three hour leadership sessions to teach, sandwiched between a 'quick' drive to Colorado Springs to pick up my niece so she can go to Lonetree Bible Camp with her cousin Heidi who arrives in from Belize Sunday night, only to head out Monday morning. Move over Jaxon. 

Michigan!

Cool tech. At our hotel in Chicago, the mirror had a TV built into it. Excellent. Not very practical, but I got to get me one of these.

Larissa meets Lake Michigan. Big enough to be an ocean.
Marlette High School Football & Track field. Home of the Red Raiders. Good days.
Marlette, Michigan. I was raised in a small town. (Thank you John Cougar)

A weekend trip to Michigan included my high school reunion in Marlette where I (theoretically) grew up.
Let's just say it was a rural community. I lived on a 40 acre ranch with 20 horses. And my family.
I left for college after high school and never went back because my parents eventually moved to
California. Marlette hasn't changed much. It had one stoplight then, and has exploded to 2 now.
Going to a reunion is both strange and wonderful. It was very cool to see some close friends from sports and college, because some went to Central with me as well. But wow, seriously, I had not seen some folks since the first week of June in 1969, and it was stunning to put names with faces.

Quite a challenge, but all in all, it was worth the trip. I was able to show Larissa the farmhouse I lived in while our home was being built. Very nostalgic, does make me miss my parents.

Also stopped by the MHS track & football field for some 'Glory Days' flashbacks as Bruce Springsteen would say.
We stayed in East Lansing where I did some grad work and had my first real radio job. (not counting college radio and a summer job for $2.27 an hour on air in Grayling)
WVIC was real radio, I went there with my roommate Jim Johnson who ended up as a morning show fixture on W4, WRIF and other stations in Detroit.

Then it was back to reality. Business, meetings, shuffling papers. But it was 40 years ago this week that Armstrong set foot on the moon. I remember that night very well. 1969 was a year that changed everything. Woodstock, etc. Out of high school, into college in Mt. Pleasant and, then it all began.

Keeping Track in Luskoland

The Lusko Tribe: Levi, Daniel, Heidi, Becca & Jesse

Periodically, for my sake and for those new to this blog, I rundown the geographic locations of the Lusko children:
l-r: Levi- married in Montana with two terrifc granddaughters. Pastor of Fresh Life church www.freshlifechurch.com
Daniel- film director in New Mexico www.luskoproductions.com.
Married year this year to Leanne
Heidi- 15- in the Carolina's now, off to Belize mission in July
runs track at Hope Christian
Becca- manages a Mac make-up store married, Jaxon, & one on the way
Jesse- in So cal leading a surf camp trip, on staff as asst youth pastor at chuch where I have worked for 18 years www.calvaryabq.org
not pictured: Josh-because he is engaged and we haven't seen him since. Going back to Bible college in So Cal with Bride in August! Working this summer at our church skate park and radio stations.

Nike Theology

James would have loved the Nike branding, Just Do It!
Check it out:
http://www.calvaryabq.tv/live/?ServiceID=704

Reloading in LuskoLand

Jesse Lusko & Nate Heitzig toasting in Solomon's Porch and plotting adventures as they lead Vertical Student Ministry at CCABQ (nice shirt nate)
I've been parenting for a very long time. Love it. Amazingly, we often have more kids at home now than ever. With Jesse & Josh engaged we are expanding exponentially. With all the boys home from Bible College for the summer, we often have multiple sleep overs. Especially on Saturday mornings, we frequently have numerous lumps laying around the house. I do sweep through the house, conduct a body count, then make some breakfast and go for a bike ride. No complaints, these kids, without exception are walking with the Lord. Jesse and Heidi are prepping for a trip to Belize. Josh works at the Skate Park and is leading studies in Skate Church and all their friends are wrapped up in church events.
Yes, we have had some defections to Montana and elsewhere, but in LuskoLand, we don't rebuild, we just reload.

What A Week in Review

Lights action & Greg Laurie
Raul Ries: Ready for his close-up

Skip and Tanner on set at Mission San Juan Capistrano. Interesting history. Cool story about the swallows.
Calvary Bible Campus in Murrieta


Josh preaching it up


Becca makes the announcement!

I'm only a week older, but the first week of June was really something!
Becca announced she is pregnant with grandchild #4- she surprised us with the
announcement and I happened to be snapping an Iphone pic of her at the moment
because I had given her an oversize CC sweatshirt to wear and she is such a fashion freak
I thought it would be humorous- but I captured the moment.

The week in So Cal was full of friends and video shoots. We did a lot for the the Bible @ 30 K with Skip, and interviewed Raul Ries, Greg Laurie & others. Plus, excellent hang out time with my son Levi. We were comped a couple nights at the Balboa Bay Club in Newport. Sweet.

Then is it was home to ABQ, Josh McDowell, Jars of Clay and about 7,000 people at Balloon Fiesta Park, the event rocked,
the gospel was preached and our kick-off to Bible literacy was front page news. The devious plan was executed to perfection!

Finally, a celebration bike ride, because Jamba Juice is coming to ABQ, wore my Jamba Jersey of course.

Two reasons....

...of many, to head for Montana. Alivia and Lenya Lusko!